SUMMARY:

• Senior SAP FICO consultant with Eight years of experience in configuring, customizing, testing, implementing, end user and support of SAP FICO module.
• Participated in two full life cycle implementations of SAP FICO module using ASAP methodology with experience in all phases - Project preparation, Business blue print, Realization, Final preparation, Go-live and Support and Post live Production Support.
• Prolific experience in implementing, customizing and configuring SAP R/3 and ECC in: FI-GL, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Special Purpose Ledger, New GL, FI-Asset Accounting, CO-CCA, CO-PCA, Internal Orders, Product Costing and COPA.
• Worked on FI integration with MM and SD modules.
• Worked on Lockbox configuration and Lockbox processing.
• Worked on Dunning configuration and processing.
• Worked on Automatic Payment Program configuration and processing.
• Experienced in creating reports using Report Painter.
• Experience in Tax Configuration using Taxware.
• Good noledge in importing master data from legacy systems by using LSMW & Batch Input Session techniques.
• Performed unit testing, integration and regression testing, user acceptance testing, business user testing and prepared test scripts and business process procedure documentation.
• Ability to work both in independent and team-oriented environments with well-developed organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills, leadership qualities and interpersonal skills with aptitude for learning and creativity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Enterprise Structure: Chart of accounts, fiscal year variant, posting period variant, company code, business areas.

General Ledger/New GL: Account Groups, GL Master Data, Field Status Groups, Automatic Account Determination, GL Account Display, Number Ranges, Document Types, Tolerance Groups, Document Splitting, Special Purpose Ledger, Segment Reporting and Financial statement versions.

Accounts Receivable: Customer Master Data, Incoming payments, Order to Cash Cycle, Credit Management, Dunning, Lockbox processing, reporting.

Accounts Payable: Account Groups, Vendor Master Data, Procure to Pay Cycle, Invoice Verification, House banks, Outgoing payment, Reporting, Automatic Payment Program, Check Management, void Reason Codes.

Taxes: VAT Taxes, Tax Codes, Condition types, Tax Procedure, Automatic GL Determination, Taxware, Tax Jurisdiction Structure.

Fixed Assets: Asset Master Data, Asset Classes, Account Determination, Chart of Depreciation, Unplanned Depreciation, Depreciation Areas, Depreciation Posting, Acquisition and Retirement of Assets, Assets under Construction, Capitalization of Assets, Uploading the Legacy Data using LSMW.

CO: Controlling area, Operating Concern.

Cost Center Accounting: Cost Elements, Costing Sheets, Reconciliation Ledgers, Standard Hierarchy, Cost Centers, Activity Types, Statistical Key Figures, Master Data Groups, Validations and Substitutions, Assessments, Distributions, Allocation Cycle and Segment, Planning.

Product Costing: Cost Component Structure, BOM, Routing, Price Calculation, Work Centers, Costing Variant, Marking and Releasing Product Cost Estimates, Overhead, costing sheet, Material Cost Estimate, Costing Run, Result Analysis, Settlement Profiles, WIP Calculation.

Profitability Analysis (CO-PA): Operating Concern, Characteristics and Value fields, settlement structure, integration with SD and MM, direct FI postings.

Logistics: Integration of FICO with SD and MM.

Reporting: Report Writer, Report Painter, Drilldown reporting.

SAP Versions: R/3 4.6C, ECC 6.0

Finance: General Ledger (GL), New GL, SPL, Accounts Payable (AP), Accounts Receivable (AR) and Fixed Assets (AA)

Controlling: Cost Element Accounting, Cost Center Accounting (CO-CCA), Profit Center Accounting (CO-PCA), Product Costing (PC), Profitability Analysis (COPA)

Methodology: ASAP

Management Tools: MS Office, VISIO

Operating System: Windows and Mac

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided Production support for the GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets modules.
• Worked on Electronic Bank Statement enhancements for UK and US.
• Designed functional specifications for enhancing the current banking processes in US.
• Switched off Automatic clearing process when uploading EBS file.
• Added new external transactions to existing transaction types.
• Gatheird requirements, prepared the functional specifications for the Banking configuration for UK.
• Configured the Automatic Payment Program and Electronics Bank Statement.
• Created account symbols, defined posting keys, posting rules, external transactions and transaction types.
• Developed custom LSMW for Check Enhancement Dates updates, monthly reconciliation and revaluation entries.
• Provided production support for third party interfaces like Xytech, On base, Vertex and interfaces for ACH, Pay mode, and Positive Pay.
• Acted as a liaison between the business and Basis team for smooth running of third party interfaces.
• Was member of the team deploying the Positive Pay for Joint ventures?
• Fixed issues for batch jobs for document reversals, script issues for ACH, Pay mode, Positive pay interfaces.
• Documentation of the current processes.
• Provided end user and prepared documentation for the enhancements.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and configured settings for Depreciation areas, Asset Master Field status and Depreciation keys.
• Posting of Depreciation in multiple depreciation areas, including derived depreciation areas for multiple currencies.
• Handling change of Depreciation Methods for Assets through transfer of Old Assets to New Assets.
• Added new depreciation area to support the additional parallel currency (global company currency) to the live company codes.
• Configured new Asset Classes as per user request.
• Resolved month end and year end issues for Asset Accounting, balance carry forward for FI- AA reconciliation.
• Customized SAP standard AFBN utility to add the functionality to choose the source and target depreciation areas.
• Prepared migration plans and strategies for migration phase 0, 1 and 2.
• Participated in running programs to create work lists to populate document splitting on AP, AR and GL open items for migration to New GL.
• Participated in preparing cutover plan for Go-Live and post Go-Live support.
• Gatheird the business requirements for activating additional currency.
• Developed the scope, blue print and functional specifications for implementing the changes to live company code.
• Activated Group Currency as the new Parallel Currency for all the productive company codes within FI module.
• Configured Special Purpose Ledger for posting the historic transactions in the new parallel currency.
• Run Parallel Currency conversion tool to copy the Local Currency to parallel currency in FI.
• Verified and configured parallel currency type and Exchange Rate Type according to requirements.
• Worked with the business to develop the scope for the implementation of VAT taxes.
• Worked as a team member in blue printing and final preparation of the Taxing Procedure.
• Designed and configured VAT Taxes for three different European Countries (Netherlands, Spain and Sweden).
• Created new Condition Types, Tax Procedures, Input and Output Codes for the VAT calculations and integration with FI.
• Set up of Automatic GL account determination procedure in the system.
• Configured Tax set up for inter-company business transactions.

Confidential, Naperville, Illinois

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as CO Module team member for implementation of Product Costing.
• Worked on creating, marking and releasing Product Cost Estimates at month end and year end.
• Maintained summarization hierarchies, cost component structure, primary cost component split, annual costing and budgeting runs across multiple plants within the company.
• Configured the material cost estimate with quantity structure, costing variant, date control, transfer strategy, BOM and route settings, costing sheets, valuation variant and cost object controlling for product costing.
• Defined Result Analysis Keys, cost elements for WIP calculation, variance keys, settlement profile and PA transfer structure in Product Costing.
• Go-Live on Product Costing and post Go-Live support.
• Configuration in the area of Cost Center Accounting.
• Created Planning Layouts for Cost Element Planning, Distribution Cycles & Assessment Cycles, and Settlement Profile and Allocation structures.
• Configured primary and secondary cost elements, cost element groups and costing sheet in Cost Element Accounting.
• Defined Internal Orders for different order types, Planning profile, Settlement Profile, Settlement Rules and month end settlements to various cost and profit centers.
• Configured Assessment and Distribution cycles with over 50 segments in each cycle for the allocation of Internal Order and Cost Center Expenses.
• Transition of noledge base for the CO modules from Core Team to Maintenance Team.
• Worked on the implementation of Revenue Account Determination, Account Summarization and Output Determination.
• Worked with the SD team for the Design and Configuration of the Sales Process, Delivery Process and Billing.
• Provide support for resolving issues during the OTC cycle and monitor the FI integration settings.
• Configured the settings for the Credit Management.
• Defined Credit control areas and risk categories.
• Worked on Intercompany postings for Full, Partial and Residual incoming payments.
• Configured Dunning Procedure and managed Dunning Process for the unpaid receivables with reached and exceeded due date.
• Defined cash discounts based upon terms of payment.
• Configured Lockbox Processing for Incoming Payments using BAI and BAI 2 formats.
• Imported, processed and post processed the Lockbox Data.
• Developed custom reports for tracking payment transactions.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Documented blue-prints for new company code and configured the system for implementation of CO-PCA, CO-PA responsible for updating Finance Work plan for new company code.
• Calculated Fixed and Variable Cost of goods sold in CO-PA, Sales document postings and Account assignment for Cost Elements.
• Configured Operating Concern attributes and the COPA Settlement Structure with the settlement rules to populate the values in the value fields in COPA.
• Created Operating Concern with definition of characteristics and value fields; Configured Costing & Accounting Based CO-PA.
• Assigned value fields to condition types in MM and SD, performed integration of FI/CO with SD, MM, account assignments and used COPA to report profitability by customer, product, and market.
• Helped in configuring necessary changes to reconcile PCA to COPA for P&L accounts including modification of COPA user exits, and creation of new field status groups.
• Created Dummy Profit Center for Statistical postings, Maintained Plan/Versions, Maintained the Master data, defined profit center hierarchy, provided support for Account Determination for internal goods movement and for production variances.
• Transferred the Vendor Master Data and open item conversions from Legacy System to SAP using LSMW.
• Configured Automatic Payment Program for Account Payables including Partial Payment Program and Check Management.
• Configured settings for Check Printing and assigned forms to payment methods.
• Worked on the Functional Specifications of checks, invoices and check design.
• Defined check lots and void reason codes.
• Configured and maintained House Banks and Alternate Bank selections for payments.
• Worked with the MM team for the FI-MM Integration.
• Implemented new Tax ware solution for US and Canada.
• Set up the External Tax Interface configuration for Tax ware with SAP ECC 6.0 to calculate Sales/Use tax.
• Creating external condition types, external tax procedure and input and output codes for the external tax system.
• Defining the structure of Tax Jurisdiction field in Customer Master and setting up of automatic GL Account Determination.

Confidential, Abbott Park, Illinois

SAP FICO Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing the tickets, recommending solutions for the issues raised during the monthly and year end closing activities in Asset Accounting and creating configuration requests when needed.
• Carrying out the necessary configuration changes for posting the Depreciation in Asset Accounting in multiple depreciation areas.
• Monitoring the monthly depreciation run for Fixed Assets in multiple currency.
• Resolved issues during the configuration of Asset Classes, Depreciation areas and depreciation keys.
• Unit and Integration Testing of customization changes and rendering assistance to the users during UAT.
• Preparation of self-halp documents.
• Handles dispatching of tickets to the Team Members.
• Created different reports utilizing the versatile features of Asset Explorer and History Sheet.
• Developed and executed test scripts for GL, AP, AR, Cash Reconciliation, Dunning, Lockbox processing, Cost center and Profit center accounting.
• Worked with SAP Project Teams to identify test cases and scenarios and coordinated with Production Support and Basis teams to develop required testing strategy.
• Developed and managed testing plans suitable for the system environment.
• Assisted in the development of project plans containing the testing portion of the product development life cycle and participated in the functional/technical and status reviews.
• Worked with the Testing Team to troubleshoot issues as they arose, investigated system logs, and by coordinating with other teams and external vendors resolved issues.
• In collaboration with Basis team, developed and executed regression testing, load testing scripts, load test scenarios and analyzed results.
• Provided detailed write ups of test results and when necessary present test results to senior group.